MINXIN PEI
The First Opium War (1839-1842) marks the official commencement of China’s so-called century of humiliation, a menstruation inwards which the Celestial Empire lost a serial of wars to technologically superior Western powers (including Japan). By the early on nineteenth century, what was ane time the world’s largest economic scheme had fallen woefully behind the West inwards damage of economical evolution as well as technological capabilities. During the Qing Empire, spell the Industrial Revolution was transforming the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland into the world’s foremost global hegemon, Red People's Republic of China remained stuck inwards the agrarian age. Yet China’s Manchu rulers continued to catch their province the middle of the basis as well as label people from other countries “barbarians.” Then the British barbarians showed upward at the door – foremost amongst opium irresistible to the dynasty’s subjects, as well as hence amongst gunboats for which the empire’s military machine was no represent – as well as the obsolescence of Chinese rulers’ Sinocentric worldview became painfully clear.
China’s descent from a self-absorbed bully empire to abject victim of global powers was ane of the swiftest as well as almost psychologically devastating inwards history. Seventy years later on the opening salvos of the First Opium War, the Qing dynasty crumbled.
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